Longterm care facilities. Gov. Whitmer all right, good afternoon. It is wednesday, april 15. I am in the romney building in lindsay joined by our chief medical executive. I wanted to give an update on where things are. I want to take a moment to acknowledge everyone who has stepped up and share their stories. It has been incredibly challenging, but also there are some phenomenal people who are going to work doing the hard work every single day. I have heard from nurses and first responders, educators, Grocery Store workers, childcare workers from all across the state of michigan and they are on the front lines every single day helping us get through this crisis. Every time i speak to them, i feel the impact this virus has had on them and their families. A staff member of mine has a Family Member who is a nurse. At the end of his lung shift, he will stay in the garage and cry before going into the house. Another friend of mine has multiple sclerosis and a compromised immune system. She
Social distancing requirement seriously, you are putting lives at stake. San Francisco Mayor closing playgrounds and threatening to close the city parks. Good evening everyone. I am heather holmes. I am frank somerville. Governor gavin newsom closed flutes keep people from gathering. In washington the senate failed for a second time to advance a 1. 8 trillion economic rescue bill. And that prompts House Democrats to come up with a version of their own. President trump said fema is sending medical equipment, 8 million n95 masks to hard hit states. The Coronavirus Task force says commercial labs testing for the virus. The president announced a delay for real i. D. S. The president today called for all americans to protect Asian Americans saying they are not responsible for spreading the disease and in california the negative of positive coronavirus cases jumped to more than 2,000, half of those are here in the bay area. Now the governor is calling for more hospital beds to handle the sur
We have gone to a pool camera. We have a few folks i would like to introduce. First of all, we are announcing our new covid19 relief fund, one of the two cochairs is with us here. Andrews, will be coordinated the state volunteer effort. She is the chief of staff at the office of Economic Development normally. Johnson barnes, mike from Gary Community investments, one of our key Nonprofit Sector partners on this. Yesterday our out new coronavirus covid19 webpage that is on our governor site. Colorado. Gov. If you are having trouble accessing it, we are scaling up its ability. It does work most of the time if you try again in a few hours. This is our effort to get more information out. We are moving away from just, day, toan update once a whatever we have information that we can make public, we want to make it public. The will be done on colorado site. It is an important resource for the public and media to get the latest information, guidance, as soon as we have something that is present
role call . Mr. President , all members are present. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv, Mia Hernandez and kalina mendoza. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , i have one to report. We received correspondence on february 14th, 2020 from mayor london breed communicating her veto of the ordinance with 2. 7 millions of general reserve conditioned upon an executed agreement at city college. Pursuant to 9. 104, my office received no request to consider this veto and therefore, file 1961 stands. Thank you, madam clerk. First of all, i want to apologize for starting a little late. We had a little press thing with the mayor announcing some issues that youll hear about in the paper. So colleagues, today we are approving the min
You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday i am pleased to announce that mayor breed declared a state of emergency in the city, which was transformative in our ability to better prepare for the response. It allowed us to activate the department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public about how best to prepare for coronavirus and when coronavirus does arrive in San Francisco. A key part of our message is that everyone